bojo is king, brexit is on, stuff is fvcked, tomorrow starts here -- new govt new thread new battle

He lied to the Queen >:|

i think some people just can't vote for a party unless they fancy the leader

I knew a girl who had the hots for Michael Howard

I mean I had a thing for young Gordon Brown for about five minutes, but fuck that.

I believe Gordon broke a lot of hearts in his day... Michael, not so much.

I know GBro has kids but I refuse to believe he’s ever had sex in his life. His advisors had to explain porn sites to him ffs.

Things can’t get worse.

The battle cry of the deluded.

btw, did I hear right that the Tory Party proclaimed this to be "David Cameron Appreciation Day"?

Michael Howard’s wife was stunning so he may have something going for him.

I remember reading a Julie Burchill piece (for my sins) in the late 90 's where she waxes lyrical on how much she'd love to fuck Blair and the proof in the pudding that he sure knew how to fuck was that Cherie was preggers at the time!

probably got contracters in to do it under a pfi

i'm never going to able hear the acronym PFI now, without experiencing truly horrific imagery and ensuing panic attacks!

is this Graham Jones tweet real? he's protected his twitter account

Graham Jones here descending into pure racism on losing his seat, absolutely good riddance to the bombfucking prick pic.twitter.com/Jsswv3LNxk

— Jimatron (@JP_Maybe) December 13, 2019

one day into a boris majority gov and this is what you get already

I know GBro has kids but I refuse to believe he’s ever had sex in his life. His advisors had to explain porn sites to him ffs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZbLG-adYlA

#BackBurgon trending on twitter, so not gonna happen

It’s a right-wing parody account afaik.

who the heck knows what's real anyone

it would certainly have to be. At this point it is probably safe to rule out any Labour shadow cabineter who was idiotic/naively dumb/antisemitic enough to have taken a selfie with "fellow socialist" Chris Williamson.

is this Graham Jones tweet real? he's protected his twitter account

🐦[Graham Jones here descending into pure racism on losing his seat, absolutely good riddance to the bombfucking prick pic.twitter.com/Jsswv3LNxk🕸
— Jimatron (@JP_Maybe) December 13, 2019🕸]🐦

It frightens me that I'm feeling pity and empathy with a complete tory prick like baroness Warsi

The Hopkins attack on Warsi is a sign of things to come

I've been drinking since midday and now I'm listening to Asian Dub Foundation. It's got that bad.

be the [cans in the park after Thatcher's death] you wish to see in the world

Sorry for trespassing - I know this is not ILM, but this might be just what you all need and deserve right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TFqhCvLuTg

:D (the only good moments I’ve had today have been listening to music)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELs-JUBX0AARJbD?format=jpg&name=large

(xp) Bizarrely, I've spent the entire day listening to the Beach Boys.

is it...something we love to see? Today? Yes it is https://t.co/j3pbEwM5qS

— Jess (@jessmeacham) December 13, 2019

the specials
wynton kelly
eddie rabbit
marshmello (thanks kids)
samim - heater
alex gopher - the child (kenny dope bonus beat)

phone calls
bread
work from home

Spoke with an Irish bloke at the pub. Came to England to work in construction, loves Led Zeppelin, Chick Corea and playing the drums. Used to be a metalhead, was into Celtic Frost. Is not a UK citizen. Wholeheartedly supports Brexit and the Tories because too many Somalian refugees are taking advantage of the NHS. The EU fucked us all over by pumping our money, imposing a single currency and overriding border control. Doesn't think a Tory majority will affect him. Loathes his ex-wife who prevented him from joining a new band. Is in his 40s and dating a teenage girl. Thinks his family back in Dublin just doesn't get it.

loves...Chick Corea

Tells you all you need to know

Change - The Glow of Love
Twinkie Clark - Awake O Zion
Sharon Brown - I Specialize in Love
Sandee - Notice Me (Notice the House Remix)

cleaning the fridge
marinating a chicken

Return to Forever's first album isn't half bad tbf.

xp

Xps Thing is, people in pubs who want brexit where it's so insanely against their interests were only activated by Cameron calling the ref in the first place

that pagarini thread which comrade a posted up thread is easily the best analysis of the doorstep defeat i’ve read so far. so i’m posting it again

I did around 120 hours of canvassing in London, Bedford and Milton Keynes. I didn’t expect this result but here’s how I can make sense of it from what I encountered on the doorstep. 1/

— Luke Pagarani (@LukePagarani) December 13, 2019

I’m still heartbroken and reeling from the juvenile centrist post-mortem poison of certain colleagues and peers; a friend who grew up in Wakefield came over for breakfast and discussed the silent killer for Labour in ‘red wall’ areas: the Islamophobia amongst white voters that led them to vote for Conservatives or Brexit Party candidates, even if (as in Wakefield) those PPCs were British Pakistani.

Here as well is something that speaks well of Corbyn, the open letter from his sons:

From the three proudest sons on the planet pic.twitter.com/0IVLmcw0kD

— Tommy Corbyn (@TommyCorbyn) December 13, 2019

<3

Spoke with an Irish bloke at the pub. Came to England to work in construction, loves Led Zeppelin, Chick Corea and playing the drums. Used to be a metalhead, was into Celtic Frost. Is not a UK citizen. Wholeheartedly supports Brexit and the Tories because too many Somalian refugees are taking advantage of the NHS. The EU fucked us all over by pumping our money, imposing a single currency and overriding border control. Doesn't think a Tory majority will affect him. Loathes his ex-wife who prevented him from joining a new band. Is in his 40s and dating a teenage girl. Thinks his family back in Dublin just doesn't get it.

― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

If you take out the "dating teen" bit it's perfect for The Guardian.

People who lost two elections trying discredit what was the best manifesto in decades. I'm not in the mood for voting for any melt candidates as long as I'm still a breathing and still have party membership. These moral midgets who always belonged on the other side of parliament can have their moment to gloat for the next few weeks, but there isn't enough of them to vote in some piece of shit establishment shill they fancy as the next leader.

The point about right-wing bigots adopting British Jews as an avatar for ‘the opposite of anyone we dislike’ has been clear for a while and gets clearer every day.

So now all the Jews are staying who do we nominate to leave?

— Allison Pearson (@allisonpearson) December 13, 2019

"the Jews"

I don’t know any of them! Where are you from?

Mine’s uses just very basic stuff, “cute”, “amadán”, “

that pagarini thread which comrade a posted up thread is easily the best analysis of the doorstep defeat i’ve read so far. so i’m posting it again

🐦[I did around 120 hours of canvassing in London, Bedford and Milton Keynes. I didn’t expect this result but here’s how I can make sense of it from what I encountered on the doorstep. 1/
— Luke Pagarani (@LukePagarani) December 13, 2019🕸]🐦

this is a misleading picture. the leadership came up a lot on the doorstep, but most of it was utter nonsense. it was a combination of anger at objectively correct stances that corbyn and others have, and pure fake news. how do you fight this? https://t.co/T93Jgjfd6W

— ryan 🚩 (@ryxnf) December 13, 2019

My kinder politics stopped when the Tories killed 100,000 people.

— Lloyd Russell-Moyle🌹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (@lloyd_rm) December 13, 2019

otm

a ragbag of good things:

just gone out to get milk, saying hello to a couple of people out and about, talking to a woman buying charcoal and firelighters - 'yeah, i'm doing catering today - jerk pork, jerk chicken' - Lambeth has something of the feel of an enclave. feel v warmly to it rn.

getting totally shitfaced with my lovely colleagues last night.

and as i said on twitter one of the few silver linings from the last three years is finding journalistic voices i *do* trust:
Faisal Islam at the BBC, Jennifer Williams at the MEN, Sarah O'Connor at the FT, Stephen Bush and the team at the NS (not you Jason Cowley), Lewis Goodall at Sky soon to be BBC.

i don’t always agree with their stance and observations. but they do the work of thinking, asking and explaining. it's been a v information poor GE, and much journalism has been rightly condemned, but these are serious people doing serious work and we'll need them more than ever in the years ahead.

also the work that the team at eater london have done to open up the restaurants of london's amazing and diverse communities.

listening to The NWRA last night. breastcrawl's post up thread, ilx UK politics people and threads generally. thank fucking god for these things.

idk. The Photoshop stuff is there but I think what Luke's thread talks about is that it really speaks to the +50 demographic that have already been talked to by the right-wing press for 20 years. They are very much distributed around those leave towns that never stopped wanting to see the ref result being fulfilled. Hence the majority.

It's very interesting how this really hadn't come up in 2017 when Corbyn was respecting the referendum result. And by that point there was a good two years of demonisation.

The left could use a lot of the same tactics, however if the vast majority of those leave voters share the racism and deference it would probably get a nod xp 👍

And this is v good and links in nicely with Luke's thread:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/14/labour-meltdown-decades-govern-votes

I mean I don't think Boris' campaign was well run compared to Labour. That is neither here nor there. Corbyn was really fighting the Blair/Brown legacy.

And this is vital.

"In the 2017 election I wrote that a party that grew out of social institutions needed to turn itself into a social institution in precisely those areas it historically took for granted. That remains the key task: providing advice to those whose benefits are being slashed, legal support to tenants under the cosh from their landlords, haggling with the utilities to provide cheaper and better deals. Add to that: teaching political and economic literacy to voters, not just activists, and consulting constituents on what issues Labour should be battling on."

Second calz on people (assume, like me, you are thinking of ex-Miliband adviser Ay3shs Har1z1ka?). The amount of sheer bile directed at Owen Jones, Ash Sarkar and (to a lesser extent, Aaron Bastani who is a clown) is really revealing. The media colleagues who said nothing as they were named in a doc sourced from Neo-Nazis? Grim. Who said nothing about OJ being assaulted, or worse tried to argue that it didn’t count as he wasn’t actually a journalist? Bleak. Those same people tee-hee-heeing away with the likes of Tom Newton-Dunn today and tomorrow? Awful. And sorry to my bin Chinese king, but Jennifer W was sneering that she was right and that Corbyn had “made her scared to do her job” bc there’s nothing to be concerned about the government’s treatment of journalists that called it out during the campaign.

Funny to see people annoyed at Gary Lineker congratulating Johnson - this is Ellen all over again and underlines the point that class solidarity is not understood at all among too many people.

But on a positive note, this has been a real scales from the eyes moment for a lot of people, including some I know irl, and that’s a comfort in itself.